Trailer for Alex Cox’s Western Film ‘Dead Souls’ Also Starring Alex Cox

“That’s him…” Kino Lorber is releasing this new indie western made by the English filmmaker Alex Cox titled Dead Souls, his latest creation at age 71. Cox is best known for his punk rock films from the 1980s – Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, Highway Patrolman. This latest is another western, and this one actually stars Alex Cox himself in the lead role. After playing at film festivals last year it’s now in select US theaters and will be on VOD soon as well. Set in 1890 – the year of the US census – chaos erupts when a man named Strindler arrives in a town in Arizona and requests money for providing the names of dead Mexican laborers. It’s described as a meditative, sincere landscape at the borderlands of the American nightmare: where fortunes rest on a dirty deal, and legacies are built on blood and gold. For his directorial swan song, Cox stars in this frontier fable of American greed. Follow mysterious drifter “Strindler” as he scours the Westt – he is paying money for the names of Dead Mexicans. No one knows why… Alex Cox stars with Zander Schloss, Dick Rude, Edward Tudor-Pole, Merritt Crocker, Maria Robles, Karen E. Wright, & Eric Schumacher. The reviews are mixed so far. One calls it an “uneven but enjoyably bizarre love letter to the spaghetti western genre.” Not much to see in this trailer, but if you’re curious give it a spin. // Continue Reading ›